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Unpredictable, house-rusting rain is hindering Guy Elvis' livelihood, but it's not the only threatening hazard in On Rusty Trails, Black Pants Games Studio's platformer coming to PC, Mac and Linux. Explosive projectiles, flying squid-looking creatures and the ever-present threat of gravity are all accounted for, making Guy's trek anything but simple.

His luck hasn't completely run out however, as a conveniently-acquired Shifty Suit allows him to influence surrounding environments by switching his appearance, as shown in the block-shifting platforming sections in the above teaser. That doesn't negate all the things trying to kill him, of course, but at least it helps with building a path to run away from it all.

You can help keep Guy high and dry when On Rusty Trails launches sometime next year.

Germany hosts the world's largest annual gaming convention, Gamescom, which last year drew 340,000 attendees and 635 exhibitors from 40 countries. Gamescom kicks off again this week in Cologne for what is sure to be an even bigger, sardine-packed public weekend. For these few days, it feels like Germany is the place to be for video game developers – and then the show leaves, exhibitors return home, and German studios large and small face the realities of operating in a country still in game development puberty.

Germany's video game industry is finding its footing economically and socially, and there's a quiet undercurrent of discontent among developers. Things are getting better – states in Germany offer a handful of programs for studios to find funding, though these trail behind the support seen in countries such as France, Finland, Sweden, Canada, the UK or the Netherlands.

"The German government is clearly not doing enough to support our industry," says Timo Ullmann, CEO of Dead Island 2 developer, Yager. "But our local governments – Berlin, Bavaria, Hamburg – are much further ahead of things and have identified our industry as an important partner. However, there is always room for improvement. There are simply not enough projects being run in Germany to support a greater number of studios and developers. And that is what we would need in order to have a more flourishing scene. Eventually we will get there over time, but I am unsure how to fix it."
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There are so many games out there we couldn't possibly review them all. Welcome to Snapshot, where we highlight games that might fall outside our usual coverage but are still something we think you should know about. Today: Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers for PC.

Some games teach us about the perils of war, how physics work or what we can look forward to in a future of space exploration, aliens and super-intelligent robots. But some games provide insight into something even more mystical, even more special and remarkably less intelligent than those robots: ourselves.Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers is one of those games.

Though you'd expect a game called "Tiny & Big" to be primarily about growing and shrinking, the trailer for Black Pants' debut PC/Mac game reveals more of an emphasis on lasers! And ropes! And rocket devices! We haven't seen so much destruction visited upon desert rocks since Wile E. Coyote.

Tiny & Big is available today from Steam, GOG, GamersGate, and the official website. You can also buy it in a box from Amazon.de, if you prefer your games to be packed in German boxes.
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